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Hilma af Klint : notes and methods
- Title
- Hilma af Klint : notes and methods / introduction and commentary by Iris Müller-Westermann ; afterword by Johan af Klint ; edited by Christine Burgin ; translations by Kerstin Lind Bonnier, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Anne Posten.
- Author
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944
- Publication
- New York, New York : Christine Burgin ; Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- 287 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Summary
- At the turn of the century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian, acknowledged fathers of twentieth-century abstraction. Like many of her contemporaries, af Klint was interested in the invisible relationships that scientists at the turn of the century were discovering shape the world. She strongly believed in a spiritual dimension to the universe and devoted her life to an exploration of this realm. Hilma af Klint's process of investigation took many forms and drew on systems and symbols outside the traditional language of art. Notes and Methods traces the origins of her powerful abstract work. Included are the mediumistic drawings she created with the group of women who called themselves The Five; Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens, a spiritual explication of the plant world; and the Blue Books, in which af Klint catalogued her most important body of work, The Paintings for the Temple. Notes and Methods is the first extensive English translation of the writings of Hilma af Klint. In addition to translations of all notebooks reproduced, Notes and Methods also includes Letters and Words Pertaining to Works by Hilma af Klint, an invaluable guide to the meaning behind the work, compiled by Hilma af Klint herself--back cover.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Notes and methods
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Language (note)
- Includes translations from the Swedish and the German.
- Contents
- The Five Notebook HaK s-9 -- The "Blue" Notebooks: HaK 1171 -- HaK 1180 / translated from Swedish by Kerstin Lind Bonnier and Elizabeth Clark Wessel -- The Atom Series: HaK inventory TK / translated from Swedish by Kerstin Lind Bonnier and Elizabeth Clark Wessel -- Flowers, mosses and lichen: Notebook HaK 588 / translated from German by Anne Posten -- Letters and words pertaining to works by Hilma af Klint: Notebook HaK 1040 / translated from Swedish by Kerstin Lind Bonnier and Elizabeth Clark Wessel.
- Call Number
- JQF 18-1776
- ISBN
- 9780226591933
- 022659193X
- LCCN
- 2018010066
- OCLC
- 1028908552
- Author
- Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944, author, artist.
- Title
- Hilma af Klint : notes and methods / introduction and commentary by Iris Müller-Westermann ; afterword by Johan af Klint ; edited by Christine Burgin ; translations by Kerstin Lind Bonnier, Elizabeth Clark Wessel, Anne Posten.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Christine Burgin ; Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Includes translations from the Swedish and the German.
- Added Author
- Müller-Westermann, Iris, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.Burgin, Christine, editor.Klint, Johan af, writer of afterword.Bonnier, Kerstin Lind, translator.Wessel, Elizabeth Clark, translator.Posten, Anne, translator.Klint, Hilma af, 1862-1944. Paintings. Selections. 2018.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 18-1776